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Greg Laurie - Facing Your Giants

August 27, 2025 | S25 E205 | 27:40

Greg Laurie - Facing Your Giants
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Facing Your Giants | August 27, 2025
  • Greg laurie: your battle that you're fighting,
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  • Your challenges that you're facing,
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  • Your temptations that you're experiencing, listen to this:
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  • The battle belongs to the lord.
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins ♪♪
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  • Greg: you know, we all have giants that we face in life.
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  • What do i mean by a giant?
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  • I mean what appears to be an insurmountable problem, issue,
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  • Or difficulty; something that may be dark and sinister
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  • Prowling around the perimeter of your life, or some challenge,
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  • Or difficulty that you don't see ever been resolved.
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  • There's all kinds of giants we face in life.
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  • There's like the giant of fear,
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  • Something that's frightening you right now.
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  • Is there something like that, something that when you think
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  • About it your heart just kind of grip with panic?
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  • And maybe it's what's going to come your way,
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  • Maybe it's problems you're having at home,
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  • But there's something you're deeply afraid of.
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  • Or maybe you're just sort of a worrywart.
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  • "what if this happens?
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  • What if that happens?"
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  • It's not even a rational fear, but it's real nonetheless.
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  • Or it might be a giant of some kind of a personal sin,
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  • A certain area in your life where you are weak,
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  • A sin that you fall into over and over and over again.
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  • You'll have victory over it for a few weeks, sometimes
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  • Even a month, but then it comes back with a vengeance.
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  • It might be pride, or envy, or gluttony, or pornography,
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  • Or drinking, or drugs, or something like that;
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  • But it's a giant that taunts you day in and day out.
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  • I want to tell you how you can overcome your giant, how you can
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  • Defeat your giant; and to do that i'm going to
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  • A very familiar story, the story of david and goliath.
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  • Hebrews 11, look at that with me, if you would.
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  • Verse 32, "what more can i say?
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  • For the time would fail me to tell of gideon and barak and
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  • Samson and jephthah, also of david and of samuel
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  • And the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms,
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  • Worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths
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  • Of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge
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  • Of the sword, out of weakness they were made strong,
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  • And they became valiant in battle.
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  • They turned to fight the armies of the aliens.
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  • Women received their dead raised to life again."
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  • David stands out in scripture.
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  • Fascinating thing that not a lot of ink is given to david in
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  • Hebrews 11, but in other passages there's so much
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  • About him, especially in the old testament.
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  • But also he's mentioned so many times in the new testament as
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  • A point of reference, really remembered as the greatest king
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  • In the history of israel, and it's worth noting that
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  • Jesus christ himself said he was the son of david
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  • On more than one occasion.
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  • David, a man of contrasts.
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  • He was a warrior, and he was a worshiper.
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  • Sometimes people say, "i'm a lover, not a fighter."
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  • David was both.
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  • He was a fighter.
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  • He was a lover.
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  • He was a man after god's own heart.
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  • He was a sinner.
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  • We all know his story well.
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  • 1 samuel chapter 17, we're going to start in verse 40
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  • And read down to verse 51.
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  • And by the way, i'm reading from the new living translation.
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  • Verse 40, "he picked up five smooth stones from a stream
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  • And put them in his shepherd's bag.
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  • Then armed with his shepherd's staff and sling,
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  • He started across to fight goliath.
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  • Goliath walked out toward david with his shield bearer ahead
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  • Of him, sneering in contempt at the ruddy-faced boy.
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  • He roared at david,
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  • 'am i a dog that you come at me with a stick?'
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  • And he cursed david by the names of his gods.
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  • Goliath yelled, 'come over here,
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  • And i'll give your flesh to the birds and wild animals.'"
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  • I love david's response.
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  • "david shouted in reply, 'you come to me with a sword
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  • And a spear and a javelin, but i come to you in the name
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  • Of the lord god almighty, the god of the armies of israel,
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  • Whom you have defied.'"
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  • Now look at david's faith.
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  • "today the lord will conquer you, and i will kill you
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  • And cut off your head.
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  • Then i'll give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and
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  • Wild animals, and the whole world will know there is a god
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  • In israel and everyone will know the lord does not need weapons
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  • To rescue his people.
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  • It's his battle, not ours.
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  • The lord will give you to us."
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  • Now notice, "as--goliath moved closer to attack,
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  • David quickly ran out to meet him."
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  • Notice that. he ran out to meet him.
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  • Verse 49, "reaching into his shepherd's bag and taking out
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  • A stone, he hurled it from his sling and hit the philistine
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  • In the forehead.
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  • The stone sank in and goliath stumbled, and he fell face
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  • Downward on the ground."
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  • So now david finishes the job.
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  • Verse 50, "so david triumphed over the philistine giant
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  • With only a stone and a sling.
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  • And since he had no sword he ran over and pulled goliath's sword
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  • From its sheath, used it to kill the giant and cut off his head.
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  • When the philistines saw their champion was dead,
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  • They turned and ran."
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  • Wow, what a story and what a victory.
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  • The will of the philistines was broken.
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  • The will of the israelis or the israelites was reinvigorated.
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  • So what do we learn in this story about
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  • Facing our giants in life?
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  • If you're taking notes, here's point number one.
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  • We all have giants.
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  • We all have obstacles.
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  • We all have problems.
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  • We all have challenges.
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  • We all have threats.
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  • We have things that we face that; well, they're just
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  • A lot bigger than us, but i want you to know that whatever
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  • You're facing right now you're not the first one
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  • Nor will you be the last one to face it.
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  • In fact, over in 1 corinthians 10:13 it says, "remember
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  • The temptations that come into your life are no different from
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  • What others experience, and god is faithful and he'll keep
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  • The temptation from becoming so strong
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  • That you can't stand up against it.
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  • When you are tempted, he'll show you a way out
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  • So you will not give in to it."
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  • Everybody has giants.
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  • So having said that, let me also add this.
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  • Though everyone has giants, it is also true
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  • That every giant is defeatable.
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  • Every giant is defeatable.
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  • And by the way, goliath was not always a giant.
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  • Remember, when we say giant, we just mean a really big dude.
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  • Okay? nine feet six inches.
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  • He was kind of a freak of nature.
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  • There weren't a lot of people his size,
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  • But he was a human being and that means he was probably
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  • The biggest baby you've ever seen; right?
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  • And, man, when it came time to change goliath's diaper,
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  • I don't think anyone wanted--
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  • You know, the dad would say, "i'm not--i did it last time.
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  • It traumatized me.
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  • You do it," you know.
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  • And then one day the little--the giant baby
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  • Became a giant toddler.
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  • Man, i would have hated to have seen goliath
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  • In his terrible twos, right?
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  • And then the toddler turned into a young man, and then he
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  • Became an adolescent, and now he's an adult, a massive man.
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  • And i bring that up because giants start small
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  • And then they get big.
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  • Sometimes there are things that we think we're managing
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  • In our life.
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  • Let's take alcohol as an example.
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  • You know, maybe you like to have a drink; you know,
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  • A beer with the boys, a glass of wine with dinner.
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  • It's no big issue for you.
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  • You said you have the liberty. it's great.
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  • But then you found that well, you know, when you get home from
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  • Work you need a drink to kind of relax and unwind and then fast
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  • Forward a little bit while you--now you kind of need
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  • A drink to kind of get up and go in the morning and, well, now
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  • You need a drink to get through the day, and one day
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  • You wake up and you have a problem with alcohol.
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  • In fact, you are a functioning alcoholic, maybe not even
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  • Functioning so well, and you're saying, "how did this start?
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  • How did this take place?"
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  • And it's become a giant.
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  • So it's a problem, and i'll tell you what.
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  • It's a big problem because i've seen a lot of lives
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  • Ruined by alcohol.
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  • I mean, you all know i was raised in an alcoholic home.
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  • Frankly i've never seen one good thing come from drinking.
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  • Okay, not one good thing, but i've seen a lot of bad things.
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  • I saw all the marriages of my mom destroyed.
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  • I know what it's like to be raised in an alcoholic home.
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  • I know what it's like to find my mother passed out on the floor
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  • Night after night and have to care for her.
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  • I've seen this stuff up close and personal, but not just in
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  • My childhood but as an adult.
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  • You know, and a pastor i've talked to people
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  • Who've had issues with this.
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  • It's become a problem.
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  • I know of two pastors in particular that lost their
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  • Ministry because they ended up with a drinking problem.
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  • This is something we have to take seriously
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  • And be very careful of, and here's my approach to it.
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  • I don't want to be under the control of anyone
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  • Or anything but jesus christ.
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  • Nothing else.
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  • The bible says don't be drunk with wine, where there
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  • Can be excess, but be filled with the holy spirit.
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  • So we don't need the spirits, we need the spirit in our life.
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  • But maybe a little thing like that has become
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  • A big thing right now.
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  • "oh, i can handle it," you said.
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  • "it'll never get the best of me."
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  • Well, now it has the best of you and that little problem
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  • Just became a giant.
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  • Or you might be facing a giant of another kind like a
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  • Non-believing husband, wife, or child and you've almost given up
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  • Hope because you've prayed and you've shared with them
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  • And you've, well, nagged them and you've pressured them
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  • And you've done everything you can and they seem to be getting
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  • Worse and further from the lord and you wonder are they ever
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  • Going to come to christ.
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  • So we all have giants, number one.
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  • Number two, david knew the battle belong to the lord.
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  • Do you know that?
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  • Your battle that you're fighting, your challenges that
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  • You're facing, your temptations that you're experiencing,
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  • Listen to this.
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  • The battle belongs to the lord.
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  • Greg: hey, everybody, greg laurie with some thoughts
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  • About how to deal with worry, anxiety, and fear.
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  • Here's something to consider. turn your worry into worship.
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  • Turn your panic into prayer. what does that mean?
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  • It means the next time you're tempted to worry,
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  • Make it a prayer.
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  • "lord, i don't know how to deal with this.
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  • It's too much for me to handle. i give it to you right now."
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  • I like what martin luther said.
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  • He said, "pray about it and let god worry."
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  • Do you think god worries?
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  • I don't, and you don't need to either.
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  • So, when you're going to bed at night, just say,
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  • "okay, lord, here's all of the things
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  • That are troubling me,"
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  • And give them to the lord, pray about each one and say,
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  • "lord, i give them all to you.
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  • I'm going to bed now,
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  • And i'll see you in the morning."
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  • Commit them to the lord.
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  • Turn your worry into worship.
  • 00:11:38.431 --> 00:11:40.366
  • The bible says, "in everything by prayer and supplication
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  • With thanksgiving, let your requests
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  • Be made known to god," and then worship as well.
  • 00:11:45.538 --> 00:11:48.908
  • I think it's very important 'cause that scripture says,
  • 00:11:48.908 --> 00:11:51.343
  • "in everything by prayer
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  • And supplication with thanksgiving,
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  • Let your requests be made known to god."
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  • Give thanks before you have the answer,
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  • Not give thanks after the prayer's been answered.
  • 00:11:58.918 --> 00:12:02.221
  • Greg: verse 47, david said to goliath,
  • 00:12:06.092 --> 00:12:07.693
  • "it's his battle, not ours.
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  • So the lord will give you to us."
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  • That's why giants defeat us again and again because
  • 00:12:11.964 --> 00:12:15.101
  • We face them in our own strength and we lose.
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  • You know, in ephesians 6 it talks about the armor of god.
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  • So we can prevail in spiritual warfare, talks about a helmet
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  • Of salvation, breastplate of righteousness, a shield of
  • 00:12:26.545 --> 00:12:30.516
  • Faith, a sword of the spirit, and so forth.
  • 00:12:30.516 --> 00:12:33.085
  • But before a word is mentioned about armor, we're told this in
  • 00:12:33.085 --> 00:12:37.523
  • Verse 10: "finally, my brothers, be strong in the lord
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  • And in the power of his might."
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  • In other words, before you do anything else you need
  • 00:12:42.061 --> 00:12:44.396
  • To lean on the lord, you need to trust in the lord.
  • 00:12:44.396 --> 00:12:47.233
  • Alexander maclaren, a great bible commentator, made this
  • 00:12:47.233 --> 00:12:50.436
  • Statement, and i quote: "he who has the holy spirit in his heart
  • 00:12:50.436 --> 00:12:54.340
  • And the scripture in his hands has all he needs."
  • 00:12:54.340 --> 00:12:58.110
  • Do you have your bible with you? grab your bible right now.
  • 00:12:58.110 --> 00:13:00.646
  • Grab it. hold it in your hand.
  • 00:13:00.646 --> 00:13:02.214
  • "he that has the holy spirit in his heart and the scripture
  • 00:13:02.214 --> 00:13:05.584
  • In his hands," he writes, "has all he needs."
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  • You have all you need.
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  • God will never give you more than you can handle.
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  • You'll never be tempted above your capacity
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  • Or capicity, whatever that is--above your capicity
  • 00:13:17.096 --> 00:13:21.734
  • Or capacity to resist.
  • 00:13:21.734 --> 00:13:25.905
  • So it's god's strength that we need to lean on,
  • 00:13:25.905 --> 00:13:29.375
  • And david cites it in verse 47.
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  • "so everyone will know the lord does not need weapons
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  • To rescue his people.
  • 00:13:34.213 --> 00:13:35.614
  • It's his battle, not ours.
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  • The lord will give you to us."
  • 00:13:37.049 --> 00:13:39.785
  • Listen, we're in a spiritual battle, and if you want to win
  • 00:13:39.785 --> 00:13:43.756
  • The spiritual battle you got to use spiritual weapons.
  • 00:13:43.756 --> 00:13:46.625
  • You got to fight fire with fire.
  • 00:13:46.625 --> 00:13:48.861
  • You say, "well, what do you mean?"
  • 00:13:48.861 --> 00:13:50.196
  • Well, look, we have two secret weapons in our arsenal
  • 00:13:50.196 --> 00:13:52.765
  • As christians that we rarely use.
  • 00:13:52.765 --> 00:13:55.301
  • What do you think they are?
  • 00:13:55.301 --> 00:13:57.269
  • "boycott and protest." no.
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  • "register and vote."
  • 00:14:00.339 --> 00:14:01.740
  • There is a place for that for sure, but that's not even it.
  • 00:14:01.740 --> 00:14:04.810
  • How about this?
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  • Pray and preach.
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  • Pray and preach. pray and preach the gospel.
  • 00:14:08.247 --> 00:14:11.851
  • So here's the thing.
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  • You--maybe you have fear.
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  • You're overwhelmed.
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  • "i don't know how we're going to deal with this."
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  • Pray about it.
  • 00:14:17.756 --> 00:14:19.225
  • Turn your worries into prayers.
  • 00:14:19.225 --> 00:14:22.428
  • The bible says in philippians don't worry about anything but
  • 00:14:22.428 --> 00:14:26.031
  • Pray about everything, and the peace of god that passes
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  • All human understanding will guard your heart and mind
  • 00:14:29.168 --> 00:14:32.471
  • In christ jesus.
  • 00:14:32.471 --> 00:14:34.039
  • So this is how you approach a giant.
  • 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:36.442
  • And by a giant, again, an obstacle, a problem,
  • 00:14:36.442 --> 00:14:38.844
  • A challenge, a temptation, an addiction, whatever.
  • 00:14:38.844 --> 00:14:41.247
  • Look at it in the light of god.
  • 00:14:41.247 --> 00:14:43.716
  • Don't look at god in the light of your giant, look at your
  • 00:14:43.716 --> 00:14:46.452
  • Giant in the light of god.
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  • Guess what?
  • 00:14:47.853 --> 00:14:49.221
  • God's bigger than your giant and god can defeat
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  • Your giant because greater is he that is in you
  • 00:14:52.191 --> 00:14:54.793
  • Than he that is in this world.
  • 00:14:54.793 --> 00:14:59.064
  • In the lord's prayer, which is really a template for all
  • 00:14:59.064 --> 00:15:02.134
  • Prayer, jesus said, "after this manner therefore pray."
  • 00:15:02.134 --> 00:15:06.272
  • In other words, this isn't just a great prayer to pray,
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  • Though it is.
  • 00:15:08.707 --> 00:15:10.109
  • There's nothing wrong at all with praying,
  • 00:15:10.109 --> 00:15:12.244
  • "our father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name.
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  • Your kingdom come," and so forth.
  • 00:15:14.546 --> 00:15:16.415
  • But really it's a model for prayer.
  • 00:15:16.415 --> 00:15:18.384
  • So jesus says, "when you pray, pray this way.
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  • Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name.
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  • Your kingdom come.
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  • Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
  • 00:15:25.724 --> 00:15:28.761
  • Then he says, "and pray, 'give us this day our daily bread.'"
  • 00:15:28.761 --> 00:15:32.398
  • Now, if we wrote the lord's prayer, it would be, "our
  • 00:15:32.398 --> 00:15:34.500
  • Father who art in heaven, give us this day our daily bread.
  • 00:15:34.500 --> 00:15:36.769
  • God, how are you doing?
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  • Good to see you. here's what i need."
  • 00:15:38.370 --> 00:15:40.239
  • But jesus says, no, don't pray that way.
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  • When you pray, stop and contemplate
  • 00:15:43.208 --> 00:15:45.344
  • The awesomeness of god.
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  • Stop and worship the lord.
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  • Get your problems into perspective.
  • 00:15:49.315 --> 00:15:51.684
  • Big god, small problems.
  • 00:15:51.684 --> 00:15:53.986
  • Big problems, small god or a small view of god?
  • 00:15:53.986 --> 00:15:58.857
  • "my father who art in heaven, hallowed or honored
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  • Or glorified be your name.
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  • Your kingdom come.
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  • Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
  • 00:16:05.764 --> 00:16:08.167
  • My god in heaven, who happens to be my father, who is
  • 00:16:08.167 --> 00:16:11.870
  • In control of all things, who is sovereign, now here's my need."
  • 00:16:11.870 --> 00:16:16.175
  • Well, immediately it'll change my perspective because
  • 00:16:16.175 --> 00:16:19.712
  • I'm looking at god in his greatness and thus i'm seeing
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  • My problem in its smallness.
  • 00:16:23.282 --> 00:16:26.452
  • So it's prayer and it's preaching
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  • To proclaiming the gospel.
  • 00:16:28.520 --> 00:16:30.823
  • In a way it's sort of attack mode.
  • 00:16:30.823 --> 00:16:33.525
  • You know, when we preach the gospel, we are attacking.
  • 00:16:33.525 --> 00:16:36.996
  • You know, we look at our culture and it's so dark and we say,
  • 00:16:36.996 --> 00:16:40.699
  • "how do we change culture?"
  • 00:16:40.699 --> 00:16:42.401
  • You change culture one person at a time, and that happens through
  • 00:16:42.401 --> 00:16:47.039
  • Something called conversion.
  • 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:49.375
  • It happened to you, it happened to me, and it can happen for
  • 00:16:49.375 --> 00:16:52.378
  • Others where they can become completely different people.
  • 00:16:52.378 --> 00:16:55.381
  • That's why we're so committed to proclaiming the gospel
  • 00:16:55.381 --> 00:16:58.417
  • Here at harvest.
  • 00:16:58.417 --> 00:17:00.552
  • And david attacked his giant.
  • 00:17:00.552 --> 00:17:01.954
  • That's point number three.
  • 00:17:01.954 --> 00:17:03.622
  • Attack your giants.
  • 00:17:03.622 --> 00:17:05.791
  • You know, earlier in the story in chapter 17, verse 25,
  • 00:17:05.791 --> 00:17:10.062
  • One of the israelites says, "have you seen this man
  • 00:17:10.062 --> 00:17:13.165
  • Goliath who has come up?"
  • 00:17:13.165 --> 00:17:15.467
  • In other words, goliath now had crossed the ravine
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  • And now was on israel's side.
  • 00:17:18.537 --> 00:17:21.173
  • So it's not like goliath was just standing in the valley
  • 00:17:21.173 --> 00:17:23.776
  • Of elah saying, "come on down here and fight me."
  • 00:17:23.776 --> 00:17:25.844
  • He was marching right up into the camp of israel and bringing
  • 00:17:25.844 --> 00:17:29.581
  • It right in front of them, and that's how it happens.
  • 00:17:29.581 --> 00:17:34.253
  • If you tolerate a goliath, he'll take over your territory.
  • 00:17:34.253 --> 00:17:37.856
  • He'll get right up on your doorstep.
  • 00:17:37.856 --> 00:17:41.193
  • He'll get in your grill, as hans likes to say.
  • 00:17:41.193 --> 00:17:45.030
  • So here's the deal.
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  • Here's how you deal with giants.
  • 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:48.967
  • You don't back off, you don't compromise,
  • 00:17:48.967 --> 00:17:51.103
  • You don't make deals, you attack them.
  • 00:17:51.103 --> 00:17:53.839
  • You attack your giants.
  • 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:55.974
  • Look at verse 48.
  • 00:17:55.974 --> 00:17:57.609
  • "as goliath moved closer to attack, david ran out quickly
  • 00:17:57.609 --> 00:18:01.180
  • To meet him."
  • 00:18:01.180 --> 00:18:03.182
  • So you say, "okay, this sounds very nice and spiritual,
  • 00:18:03.182 --> 00:18:06.752
  • But i don't really know what this means."
  • 00:18:06.752 --> 00:18:09.221
  • Okay, let's get practical for a moment.
  • 00:18:09.221 --> 00:18:10.956
  • Let's say you have a problem with drinking,
  • 00:18:10.956 --> 00:18:14.293
  • Or drugs, or pornography.
  • 00:18:14.293 --> 00:18:18.263
  • Deal with it.
  • 00:18:18.263 --> 00:18:19.898
  • So it starts by saying, "i have a problem."
  • 00:18:19.898 --> 00:18:22.468
  • See, as long as you're hiding it,
  • 00:18:22.468 --> 00:18:24.103
  • You're never going to deal with it.
  • 00:18:24.103 --> 00:18:25.604
  • You have to come out and say this to someone you love,
  • 00:18:25.604 --> 00:18:27.539
  • Your husband, your wife, your mom, your dad, your pastor,
  • 00:18:27.539 --> 00:18:31.009
  • A trusted friend, "i have a problem with drinking.
  • 00:18:31.009 --> 00:18:33.679
  • I have a problem with drugs."
  • 00:18:33.679 --> 00:18:35.481
  • These are not autobiographical statements, by the way.
  • 00:18:35.481 --> 00:18:39.017
  • Someone's going to edit this and just put it out in the internet
  • 00:18:39.017 --> 00:18:41.854
  • Somewhere just saying that and--with no explanation.
  • 00:18:41.854 --> 00:18:45.157
  • Okay, so are--you know, "i have this issue."
  • 00:18:45.157 --> 00:18:48.393
  • Okay, call it what it is. it's not just a problem.
  • 00:18:48.393 --> 00:18:51.296
  • That's a sin. you're dealing with this sin.
  • 00:18:51.296 --> 00:18:53.765
  • You're under the power of this sin.
  • 00:18:53.765 --> 00:18:55.801
  • So you need to bring it into the light of day
  • 00:18:55.801 --> 00:18:58.070
  • So you can start being dealt with.
  • 00:18:58.070 --> 00:19:00.405
  • Get it out of the shadows of darkness where it is lurked into
  • 00:19:00.405 --> 00:19:03.609
  • The light of day, and that brings into point number four.
  • 00:19:03.609 --> 00:19:06.378
  • Finish your giant off.
  • 00:19:06.378 --> 00:19:08.514
  • So you attack your giant and you finish him off.
  • 00:19:08.514 --> 00:19:11.650
  • Though goliath fell, he was still alive.
  • 00:19:11.650 --> 00:19:14.386
  • Now think about this.
  • 00:19:14.386 --> 00:19:16.288
  • David comes out with his sling, kind of like a slingshot.
  • 00:19:16.288 --> 00:19:20.092
  • Really a sling that he had really learned how to use
  • 00:19:20.092 --> 00:19:23.795
  • Because he would fight off predators with it.
  • 00:19:23.795 --> 00:19:26.598
  • He'd put a stone and start swinging it around and get a lot
  • 00:19:26.598 --> 00:19:29.968
  • Of momentum, and then when he released it it was like a guided
  • 00:19:29.968 --> 00:19:33.005
  • Missile, in a way like a bullet.
  • 00:19:33.005 --> 00:19:35.574
  • And it hits goliath, but goliath is a big guy
  • 00:19:35.574 --> 00:19:37.876
  • And he has a helmet on.
  • 00:19:37.876 --> 00:19:39.678
  • But he's done, boom.
  • 00:19:39.678 --> 00:19:41.346
  • And it's interesting he doesn't fall backwards,
  • 00:19:41.346 --> 00:19:43.382
  • He falls forward and he's lying there.
  • 00:19:43.382 --> 00:19:45.817
  • Now, think of how many movies or tv shows you've seen
  • 00:19:45.817 --> 00:19:49.421
  • Where the hero kills the bad guy.
  • 00:19:49.421 --> 00:19:53.058
  • He kills him.
  • 00:19:53.058 --> 00:19:54.560
  • The bad guy is dead, then the hero turns his back
  • 00:19:54.560 --> 00:19:58.096
  • To the bad guy; right?
  • 00:19:58.096 --> 00:19:59.698
  • And he's like calling someone or doing something and then--
  • 00:19:59.698 --> 00:20:02.768
  • You know the scene; right?
  • 00:20:02.768 --> 00:20:04.303
  • And all of a sudden the guy just stands up.
  • 00:20:04.303 --> 00:20:06.638
  • He's in the frame all of a sudden, you know, with a knife.
  • 00:20:06.638 --> 00:20:09.007
  • We go, "look behind you, you idiot," you know.
  • 00:20:09.007 --> 00:20:11.476
  • David had seen all those movies.
  • 00:20:11.476 --> 00:20:15.347
  • So he's down, but he's not dead.
  • 00:20:15.347 --> 00:20:19.051
  • So he takes it to the next level, and what does he do?
  • 00:20:19.051 --> 00:20:22.120
  • He goes over, verse 51, grabs his sword from its sheath
  • 00:20:22.120 --> 00:20:27.693
  • And kills the giant and cuts off his head.
  • 00:20:27.693 --> 00:20:31.563
  • David really knew how to get ahead in life, didn't he?
  • 00:20:31.563 --> 00:20:34.666
  • No, seriously.
  • 00:20:34.666 --> 00:20:36.068
  • Okay, now think about this.
  • 00:20:36.068 --> 00:20:37.502
  • Goliath was big.
  • 00:20:37.502 --> 00:20:38.870
  • He had a big neck, and he had a big sword.
  • 00:20:38.870 --> 00:20:41.206
  • So david pulls it up probably with both hands.
  • 00:20:41.206 --> 00:20:44.309
  • Goes over him and he probably--it didn't just come
  • 00:20:44.309 --> 00:20:46.945
  • Off all at once.
  • 00:20:46.945 --> 00:20:48.313
  • He probably had to chop.
  • 00:20:48.313 --> 00:20:51.083
  • You saying, "greg, this is so sickening."
  • 00:20:51.083 --> 00:20:54.987
  • It's in the bible.
  • 00:20:54.987 --> 00:20:58.757
  • He had to chop his head off.
  • 00:20:58.757 --> 00:21:02.327
  • Here's your choice.
  • 00:21:02.327 --> 00:21:04.496
  • Kill your giant or your giant will kill you.
  • 00:21:04.496 --> 00:21:08.100
  • Marginalize it, justify it so you can handle it.
  • 00:21:08.100 --> 00:21:11.436
  • That giant's coming back for more, man.
  • 00:21:11.436 --> 00:21:14.539
  • So cut its head off.
  • 00:21:14.539 --> 00:21:16.441
  • You kill them or they'll kill you.
  • 00:21:16.441 --> 00:21:19.311
  • And david used goliath's sword to kill goliath.
  • 00:21:19.311 --> 00:21:22.848
  • There would be no comebacks for goliath.
  • 00:21:22.848 --> 00:21:25.183
  • So what does this mean?
  • 00:21:25.183 --> 00:21:27.052
  • Practically it means you burn your bridges.
  • 00:21:27.052 --> 00:21:29.821
  • Let's say you have a problem with drinking.
  • 00:21:29.821 --> 00:21:31.923
  • What do you do?
  • 00:21:31.923 --> 00:21:33.392
  • Take the booze and pour it down the stinking drain, and don't
  • 00:21:33.392 --> 00:21:36.828
  • Buy any more, and don't hang around people that are drinking,
  • 00:21:36.828 --> 00:21:40.499
  • And don't go to places where you're going to be tempted
  • 00:21:40.499 --> 00:21:42.968
  • Because you know you're vulnerable.
  • 00:21:42.968 --> 00:21:44.503
  • If you have drugs, get rid of them.
  • 00:21:44.503 --> 00:21:46.305
  • "i have a lot of drugs. that's bad stewardship.
  • 00:21:46.305 --> 00:21:48.440
  • I'll sell them."
  • 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:49.808
  • No. do not sell them.
  • 00:21:49.808 --> 00:21:52.344
  • You will be arrested as a drug dealer.
  • 00:21:52.344 --> 00:21:55.614
  • Get rid of them.
  • 00:21:55.614 --> 00:21:57.115
  • Throw them out. burn your bridges.
  • 00:21:57.115 --> 00:22:00.419
  • What about if you have an issue with pornography?
  • 00:22:00.419 --> 00:22:02.454
  • Well, if you're viewing it online, you need to take
  • 00:22:02.454 --> 00:22:04.256
  • Practical steps.
  • 00:22:04.256 --> 00:22:08.226
  • Maybe get an internet filter, but those sometimes don't work
  • 00:22:08.226 --> 00:22:11.396
  • As well as one would hope.
  • 00:22:11.396 --> 00:22:13.298
  • Hey, if necessary, get rid of your stinking computer,
  • 00:22:13.298 --> 00:22:16.168
  • You know, seriously.
  • 00:22:16.168 --> 00:22:17.602
  • You know, jesus said, "if your right eye offend you pluck it
  • 00:22:17.602 --> 00:22:20.706
  • Out, for it's better to enter into the kingdom of god
  • 00:22:20.706 --> 00:22:23.408
  • With one eye than to be thrown into hell with two.
  • 00:22:23.408 --> 00:22:27.512
  • And if your right arm offends you cut it off, for it's better
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  • To enter into god's kingdom with one arm than
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  • To be thrown into hell with two."
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  • Now, of course, you know that's not literal, right?
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  • There's a guy with one arm and eye missing going, "don't--"
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  • No, i'm just kidding.
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  • But this is a picture he uses to show that we must take
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  • Radical measures.
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  • In that culture, the right arm or hand was thought of as
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  • The best hand and the right eye was thought of as the best eye.
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  • So here's what it means.
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  • Do whatever you need to do to get rid of that sin
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  • In your life.
  • 00:22:58.910 --> 00:23:00.479
  • And so if it literally meant you're not going to carry
  • 00:23:00.479 --> 00:23:02.514
  • A smartphone around 'cause you view junk on it, then get
  • 00:23:02.514 --> 00:23:05.784
  • An old school phone that actually just makes phone calls.
  • 00:23:05.784 --> 00:23:08.987
  • What an evolutionary thought.
  • 00:23:08.987 --> 00:23:10.522
  • I mean, there might be practical steps.
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  • Hey, if you're married, tell your wife what your passwords
  • 00:23:12.124 --> 00:23:15.260
  • Are so she can access your account.
  • 00:23:15.260 --> 00:23:17.295
  • Be upfront about it.
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  • Make yourself accountable to someone.
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  • If you're single, say, "i have a--i've struggled here.
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  • You can look at my phone.
  • 00:23:24.169 --> 00:23:25.737
  • You can look on my computer anytime you want.
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  • Hold me to account."
  • 00:23:28.140 --> 00:23:30.108
  • You have to deal with these issues in a practical,
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  • Upfront way.
  • 00:23:32.611 --> 00:23:35.280
  • And so david did that exactly, and he cut off the head of
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  • His giant and this gave courage to the rest of the israeli army
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  • That then attacked their enemies.
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  • And, you know, in the same way that they shared in the victory
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  • Of david, we share in the victory of jesus.
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  • Greg: maybe god has spoken
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  • To your heart and you have seen your need for jesus christ.
  • 00:24:02.941 --> 00:24:07.712
  • Jesus christ is the son of god who came from heaven
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  • To this earth.
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  • He was born in a manger, he died on cross,
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  • He rose again from the dead; why?
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  • Because he loves you and he wants a relationship with you.
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  • Listen, i'm not talking about religion.
  • 00:24:22.427 --> 00:24:24.496
  • I don't wanna be a religious person,
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  • I don't think you wanna be one either,
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  • I'm talking about relationship with god.
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  • Jesus who died and rose again stands at the door of your life
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  • And he knocks and he says, "if you'll hear his voice
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  • And open the door, he will come in."
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  • Question:
  • 00:24:41.346 --> 00:24:42.848
  • Have you asked jesus christ to come and live inside of you?
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  • You might say, "well, i think so, i'm not sure."
  • 00:24:45.584 --> 00:24:47.752
  • Hey, if someone moved into your house in the middle
  • 00:24:47.752 --> 00:24:49.955
  • Of the night, do you think you would be aware of it?
  • 00:24:49.955 --> 00:24:52.858
  • I'm sure you would.
  • 00:24:52.858 --> 00:24:54.593
  • And in the same way, if christ has come to live inside of you,
  • 00:24:54.593 --> 00:24:57.429
  • You will know, and if you don't know,
  • 00:24:57.429 --> 00:24:59.998
  • Maybe he has not come in yet, he's just a prayer away.
  • 00:24:59.998 --> 00:25:03.802
  • All you need to do is say, "jesus, i want this relationship
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  • With you, i want you to forgive me of my sin,
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  • I wanna go to heaven when i die."
  • 00:25:10.208 --> 00:25:12.744
  • Would you like to do that?
  • 00:25:12.744 --> 00:25:14.312
  • Would you like christ to come into your life?
  • 00:25:14.312 --> 00:25:16.248
  • If so, why don't you just pray the simple prayer with me.
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  • You can pray it out loud or you can pray it in the quietness
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  • Of your heart.
  • 00:25:22.854 --> 00:25:24.189
  • But this is a prayer where you're asking jesus christ
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  • To be your savior and lord, pray this with me now.
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  • "lord jesus, i know that i'm a sinner,
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  • But i know that you're the savior.
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  • Who died on the cross for my sin and rose again from the dead.
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  • Now come into my life.
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  • I choose to follow you from this moment forward.
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  • Thank you for hearing this prayer
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  • And answering this prayer.
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  • In jesus's name, amen."
  • 00:25:51.049 --> 00:25:53.451
  • Did you just pray that prayer with me?
  • 00:25:53.451 --> 00:25:56.154
  • If so, i want you to know in the authority of scripture that
  • 00:25:56.154 --> 00:25:59.224
  • Christ himself has come to live inside of you.
  • 00:25:59.224 --> 00:26:02.494
  • And i would love to send to you, at no charge,
  • 00:26:02.494 --> 00:26:04.963
  • "the new believer's bible," it's a very friendly translation of
  • 00:26:04.963 --> 00:26:08.934
  • The new testament you'll find very understandable, and it's
  • 00:26:08.934 --> 00:26:12.337
  • Filled with hundreds of notes that i wrote that will encourage
  • 00:26:12.337 --> 00:26:16.174
  • You in this commitment you've just made to follow jesus.
  • 00:26:16.174 --> 00:26:19.578
  • And let me be the first to say to you, "congratulations
  • 00:26:19.578 --> 00:26:22.480
  • And welcome to the family of god."
  • 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:27.285
  • Greg: greg laurie here.
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  • You know, there is a very special group of people
  • 00:26:32.157 --> 00:26:35.160
  • I want to introduce you to.
  • 00:26:35.160 --> 00:26:37.062
  • They are a group of people who are passionate about the gospel
  • 00:26:37.062 --> 00:26:40.699
  • Of jesus christ being proclaimed in this nation and beyond.
  • 00:26:40.699 --> 00:26:44.836
  • In fact, these people made this tv program
  • 00:26:44.836 --> 00:26:48.306
  • That you're watching possible.
  • 00:26:48.306 --> 00:26:50.208
  • They also make possible our radio program, our harvest
  • 00:26:50.208 --> 00:26:53.445
  • Crusades, our evangelistic movies like "jesus revolution,"
  • 00:26:53.445 --> 00:26:57.482
  • And so much more.
  • 00:26:57.482 --> 00:26:58.917
  • Without them, harvest ministries could not even exist,
  • 00:26:58.917 --> 00:27:02.487
  • So who are these amazing people?
  • 00:27:02.487 --> 00:27:04.856
  • We call them harvest partners.
  • 00:27:04.856 --> 00:27:07.092
  • They are people who have chosen to give monthly to harvest to
  • 00:27:07.092 --> 00:27:10.362
  • Keep the gospel moving forward.
  • 00:27:10.362 --> 00:27:12.864
  • Jesus said, "the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are
  • 00:27:12.864 --> 00:27:16.534
  • Few, therefore pray the lord of the harvest
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  • To send out laborers into his harvest."
  • 00:27:19.537 --> 00:27:22.140
  • Will you become a harvest partner and help us fulfill the
  • 00:27:22.140 --> 00:27:26.011
  • Great commission in our lifetime?
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  • Let's do this together.
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